How To Stay Sane In Your
Baby's First Year - The Tresillian Guide by Cathrine Fowler & Patricia
Gornall - Cost around $20.A great book for the first year of baby. Covering
many topics including survival techniques for parents, coping with lack
of sleep and post natal depression, your baby at the different stages up
to age 1, feeding problems (breastfeeding and bottle feeding and feeding
solids with some reciepes included), travelling with baby, baby in care,
sick baby, and a immunisation schedule. It also has at the back a list
of phone numbers for various support services including the 24-hr Tresillian
Advisory/Councelling Service. This is a great book for Aussie mums, because
it is written for Aussie Mums, with references to Australia and services
available here. This was the best gift I received for baby. Reviewed
by Bettibeetle 6/4/2000

Feeding Babies & Toddlers
by Jacki Passmore - Cost around $20A useful book to have amoungst your cookbooks! Covering
about every question you have for feeding your baby up to the age of around
3 or 4. Covering topics such as Breastfeeding vs Bottle, Mixed Feeding
and solids, Preparing your own baby food, problem feeders, feeding problems
and allergies, vegetarianism and natural foods, lunchbox, birthday and
special occasion feeding/foods. This has heaps of receipes, set out in
a no-fuss way with beautiful glossy photos and diagrams. Highly recommended.
Reviewed by Bettibeetle 6/4/2000

The Bargain Shoppers Guide
to Sydney - Cost around $8-9Published yearly, this is
a great buy. Listing heaps of places around Sydney to save. Covering the
whole family with clothing, kid's stuff, shoes, food, beauty, sports &
leisure, manchester, fabric & crafts. Also your house with furniture
& other inside stuff, outside stuff, home office & entertainment.
There is a list of services and markets too. Reviewed
by Bettibeetle 7/4/2000

Double Trouble Double Treat
by Annie & Jamie Gibbons The book is $15.00 (Australian) per copy plus
$3.00 postage and handling. Volume orders of 10 copies plus @ $12.00 each
plus $6.00 postage and handlingA book about twins by the parents of two sets of
twins, the Gibbons family has five children in total. The Gibbins manage
to get right down to the nitty gritty practical step by step advice on
the day to day management of twins...which is just what you want. However,
the bigger picture of the joy and blessing of children is never forgotten.
They have learned what to let go of and what to hold fast to. This gives
this book the positive feeling of celebration of parenthood in all its
challenges, big and small. You are left with the clear message that the
enjoyment of the journey is as important as the destination (namely, survival!).
If you learn to enjoy the ride one tenth as much as Annie and James by
gleaning some tips from this book, you’re doing well. To order this book
or find out more about it go to their website: http://www.geocities.com/jamieannie_99/